Altruistic vs Lavish - What's the difference?
altruistic | lavish | Related terms |
Regardful of others; beneficent; unselfish
Expending or bestowing profusely; profuse; prodigal.
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, passage=The day was cool and snappy for August, and the Rise all green with a lavish nature. Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet:
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Superabundant; excessive; as, lavish spirits.
* 1623 , (William Shakespeare), (Measure for Measure) Act 2 Scene 2
To expend or bestow with profusion; to use with prodigality; to squander; as, to lavish money or praise.
Altruistic is a related term of lavish.
As adjectives the difference between altruistic and lavish
is that altruistic is regardful of others; beneficent; unselfish while lavish is expending or bestowing profusely; profuse; prodigal.As a verb lavish is
to expend or bestow with profusion; to use with prodigality; to squander; as, to lavish money or praise.altruistic
English
(altruism)Adjective
(en adjective)- His helping the old woman with her shopping was deemed highly altruistic by everyone, especially since her home was a mile away.
Synonyms
* (regardful of others) beneficent, humane, philanthropic, selfless, unselfishAntonyms
* (regardful of others) egoistic, misanthropic, selfishDerived terms
* altruistic filicide * altruisticallylavish
English
Alternative forms
* (l), (l), (l) (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. There was a great deal of them, lavish both in material and in workmanship.
- Let her haue needfull, but not lauish meanes